An open mind is all you need to see the world, writes Leila George.

Derek Cheng rejoices in the spectacular scenery of Nahuel Huapi National Park.

Sao Paulo's just a 60-minute flight from the Olympic host city, but worlds apart in spirit and style.

Zac Efron has revealed he felt compelled to fly all the way to Rio to meet US gymnast Simone Biles as soon as he heard she was a fan of his.

The Mocona Falls almost seems to defy logic.

A dire hotel accommodation shortage has opened the city's poorest favelas to tourists.

United States efforts on the Zika virus have been so focused on prevention, almost no firm plans have been made for the care of the nation's first dozen Zika babies.

Inhotim is an open-air art gallery in the midst of about 2000ha of botanic gardens, a two-hour drive from Belo Horizonte, a two-hour flight from Rio.

This spot in Venezuela is struck by more lightning than anywhere else in the world, creating spectacular electric storms. What on Earth is going on?

Two new cave paintings have been discovered near the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru.

COMMENT: With less than a month to go until Rio, serious concerns have been raised about the safety of tourists and teams arriving in the city.

Lima's huge shantytowns are not the standard fare of tourists, but for some, they're precisely why they come.

Rio is polluted, dangerous and often downright overwhelming. Alexis Carey recommends you don't miss it.

With the Olympics only a month away, the spotlight is on Brazil as it prepares for half a million tourists from around the world to arrive.

While Uruguay doesn't have big-ticket tourist attractions like Iguazu Falls and Christ the Redeemer, it definitely deserves to be a tourist destination in its own right.

Auckland Zoo needs your help to name two new arrivals - a pair of male capybara pups.

Peru is one of those places you go to once and fall head over heels in love. It will surprise you, enchant you and have you craving for more.

What's in the basement of his hotel? Nicholas Jones knows, but will he be allowed to go there?

Latin America is Uber's fastest-growing region.

They are the bucket-list destinations tourists are loving to death. Some of these sites have been shut down, while for others the risk lingers.

There's a 10 per cent chance of sunshine in Colombia's Chingaza National Park.

A vast roll call of exotic critters entertain Nicholas Jones in the world's biggest wetland

South America Giant tortoises, grunts, or blue-footed boobys - Lydia Jenkin doesn't quite know which Galapagos curiosity to look at first

A look at what it's like living in the murder capital of the world, where roughly 24 people are killed everyday.

Chile's capital is an unsung city. Unjustly, says Paul Clements, who took a bicycle tour of its liveliest localities.

Books can take you places, but Steve Braunias wants to go for real to the exact place he's been reading about.

It's a little after 10pm, and I'm standing somewhere in the middle of the Andean cloud forest in the Choco region of northern Ecuador, with six others.

Stadiums, including the Aquatics Stadium and Future Arena are in the finishing stages, and the tottering remains of a favela, or slum, are being torn down.

There's an awful lot of wildlife in Brazil. Most of it lives in the Amazon rainforest, home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world.